Alex Levine
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33 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 Apr
Alex Levine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's striking because 15 or 20 years ago, social media was a sexy thing to be.
The way that today now everyone is an AI native this or an AI power that.
As sentiment has soured and we've entered this moment where it's common vernacular.
We talk about social media as brain rot and doom scrolling and we say going analog is very in vogue.
The sentiment has soured and now the social media companies want to be known for something other than either what they started as or in some cases we could argue what they actually are.
Yeah, so I mean, we looked at how Meta, as you said, was trying to rebrand to a Metaverse company.
And since then, we've seen them get into chip making, into AI, into consumer tech.
YouTube very much wants to be known just as TV or as really an entertainment and streaming company.
TikTok similarly also wants to be known as an entertainment company.
Snap has said in the past that it's a camera company.
I think all of these are, it's understandable why the companies want to move in this direction, but the corporate spin is just not seemingly working.
The roles are mainly in California and Washington.
You've got roles that are
focused on producing international data to feed to ByteDance's LLMs.
And these are more roles focused on helping ByteDance pursue drug discovery and development.
until now, and I think the turning point has really been over the last week since ByteDance unveiled some new AI models for video generation, for example, and image generation that has really caught on and raised concern, especially from Hollywood, in a very big way.
We bet on each other, but it's not as exclusive as it was, say, a few years ago.
OpenAI uses our compute, they train models in our data centers, but they work with other companies as well.
The question is why?
Is it a hedge?
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